What did Peterloo mean in an international context? Shirin Hirsch investigates the connections between Peterloo and a global struggle for freedom.
Tag: revolution
‘Communism’: An Intellectual Genealogy
Seamus Flaherty on the history of a word which has surged back into public discourse this year.
Defending the Revolution: History, Activism and the Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Secretary of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign Bernard Regan gives an activist’s perspective on the history of the Cuban Revolution and explains why the Campaign continues to fight today.
Remembering 1968 – The Poster Workshop, 1968-71
The Poster Workshop was the first of the radical screen-printing workshops in London, and its posters offer a mirror to the political preoccupations of the times.
Radical Books: Maxim Gorky, ‘Song of the Falcon’ (1894)
For the latest post in our Radical Books series, Ole Birk Laursen tracks the influence of Maxim Gorky’s anti-Tsarist poem ‘Song of the Falcon’ on Russian and Indian revolutionaries before the Russian Revolution
Radical Books: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
The Wretched of the Earth was the final work of Frantz Fanon, a fearless critic of colonialism and a key figure in Algeria’s struggle for independence. This new history of the ‘Third World’ depicted the unresolved and open-ended nature of the struggle for liberation.
The Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic: 13-15 October, Preston
Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 13-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
El Otro: A Homosexual Liberation Paper from Colombia
Homosexuals needed to communicate, they needed to debate and, most important of all, they needed to organize.
Self-publish and be Damned: A call for Radical Publishing Alternatives
Lesley Hulonce advocates a revolution in academic publishing, including radical alternatives like self publishing.
The Domino Revolutions: 1848, 1989, 2011
The successive overthrow of apparently well established governments in Tunisia, Egypt and then Libya prompts the question: how do revolutions spread? Kevin Adamson and Mike Rapport of the School of History and Politics at the University of Stirling compare years of ‘domino’ revolutions.
